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Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Music

Noted by The New York Times for giving “the proceedings an invaluable central thread of integrity and stylishness,” GRAMMY®-nominated violinist Ariana Kim made her New York recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall during her doctoral studies at Juilliard and is now a tenured violin professor at Cornell University.  At 16, Ariana made her debut with the St.

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Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Engineering, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

Professor Lewis received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Political Science from Eckerd College in 1992, his Master’s degree in Theoretical Statistics from Florida State University in 1995, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

I am an evolutionary ecologist raised in Spain, with a PhD in Finland who has worked as a scientist in California, France, St. Louis, and now Cornell. In  am interested in a variety of ecological and evolutionary questions, especially involving the relationship between both disciplines and the theory of eco-evolutionary feedbacks.

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Registered Dietitian & Nutritionist, Cornell Health

Krista provides nutrition counseling at Cornell Health, as well as in the local Ithaca community. She enjoys working together to create strategies to meet an individual’s unique needs and desired health goals. She believes fostering a healthy food-relationship and creating a sustainable pattern of eating is foundational for overall quality of life.

Graduate Resident Fellow

Caitlin O'Brien (she/her/hers) is Ph.D. student in Astrophysics at Cornell University studying cosmology. She currently works with Dr. Rachel Bean to test gravity on the largest scales in the universe using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).

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Undergraduate Resident Fellow

My name is Ciara Orr, and I am so excited to be Bethe North's URF this year. I am a junior in ILR with plans of becoming an attorney. I love spending time with my four-year-old little sister and my Black Labrador Retriever, Bailey, as well as going to concerts.

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Associate Director, LASSP (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics)

LASSP is an interdisciplinary research center within Cornell Research & Innovation, one of the two research arms of the Physics Department and the administrative home of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science (KIC) and the Cornell NEXT Nano Initiative.

Assistant Professor, Department of Music

Carmel Raz is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University. She studies the interrelations of music, mind, and body during the emergence of modern European musical cultures. How did the field of music cognition develop from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century? How did Enlightenment neurophysiology influence Romantic music?

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Instructional Designer (eCornell) & Developmental Editor

Amanda first joined Bethe as a GRF in 2018 while completing her doctoral program. She is beyond excited to return as a House Fellow and reconnect with the Bethe community in this new role. As an Instructional Designer for eCornell, Amanda partners with faculty from across the University to build online courses that range from professional certificate programs to graduate-level courses.

Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

Bradley is a professor of food and agricultural economics in the Dyson School, and he previously taught at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.